Kurlander v. School Committee of Williamstown

This case consolidates Donald Kurlander’s appeal, initiated in the Superior Court, from the vote of the Williamstown school committee to dismiss him from his tenured teaching position with an action brought by eleven *351registered voters of Williamstown, which challenges certain procedures followed by the committee in considering the dismissal as a violation of the open meeting law, G. L. c. 39, §§ 23A-24. A judge of the Superior Court heard the cases together. The trial of the dismissal case was de nova as required by G. L. c. 71, § 43A.2

Kurlander was a tenured elementary art teacher in the…